Around the NBA Continued

Post #1821 » by **K_ick_God** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:12 am

dakomish23 wrote:
KnicksGod wrote:RJ Barrett best young Raptor — check.

Have you seen Barnes play? He’s a perennial all star in the making IMO b/c he actually GAF about defense

And I think he is too close to say Jared Jeffries.

CoachD · Post #1822 » by **CoachD** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:15 am

KnicksGadfly wrote:Wow Steph had a horrific game

Had Barnes guarding him

DaGawd · Post #1823 » by **DaGawd** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:16 am

CoachD wrote:RJ looks completely different as a Raptor. His shooting has been better... he's getting drives to the basket and bullying dudes ... he's rebounding ... and most impressively... his defense has been very good

he has his hot streaks. consistency is key for him

nykballa2k4 · Post #1824 » by **nykballa2k4** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:26 am

CoachD wrote:RJ looks completely different as a Raptor. His shooting has been better... he's getting drives to the basket and bullying dudes ... he's rebounding ... and most impressively... his defense has been very good

That's who he is. I have been saying it all season -- his shot is fixed. I think in NY we just had so many mouths to feed, he would often have to wait until his run with the 2nd unit to get into a rhythm. Now it seems he just has a more open chance.

Cheering for him and IQ, though kinda want to see IQ traded to Philly so IQ and Maxey can run around together.

knicks94 · Post #1825 » by **knicks94** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:31 am

Must be the time of the year in which the league catapults the Lakers out of irrelevancy.

G_K_F · Post #1826 » by **G_K_F** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:35 am

RJ had a great game.

So I anticipate his next 10 games will be awful.

Post #1827 » by **HerSports85** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:43 am

We can talk about his plus minus all day, it's terrible. However, he runs with the second unit as he did here. Also his decision making is lower the Randle's and we all know how I think Randle's BBIQ is at the bottom of the barrel, but he's improving and that's why he's having the season he is. Maybe Randle's watching film now lol.

Anyway, RJ been good since the trade. The trolls will nitpick but I like what I'm seeing. It's always potential with RJ. His age is brought up because many players didn't click until after 25. But if he doesn't take the leap in Toronto, then I believe this is just the player he is.

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Galvationknicks · Post #1828 » by **Galvationknicks** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:54 am

Good thing is that this trade makes Donny look good amongst other GMs. Also he's not trying to fleece you. Our perception around the league should improve

rajajackal · Post #1829 » by **rajajackal** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:54 am

nykballa2k4 wrote:
CoachD wrote:RJ looks completely different as a Raptor. His shooting has been better... he's getting drives to the basket and bullying dudes ... he's rebounding ... and most impressively... his defense has been very good

That's who he is. I have been saying it all season -- his shot is fixed. I think in NY we just had so many mouths to feed, he would often have to wait until his run with the 2nd unit to get into a rhythm. Now it seems he just has a more open chance.

Cheering for him and IQ, though kinda want to see IQ traded to Philly so IQ and Maxey can run around together.

now why in the hell as a knicks fan would you ever want to have to see this :lol:

nykballa2k4 · Post #1830 » by **nykballa2k4** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:55 am

knicks94 wrote:Must be the time of the year in which the league catapults the Lakers out of irrelevancy.

Clips 17 fouls to Lakers 11.

nykballa2k4 · Post #1831 » by **nykballa2k4** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:56 am

rajajackal wrote:
nykballa2k4 wrote:
CoachD wrote:RJ looks completely different as a Raptor. His shooting has been better... he's getting drives to the basket and bullying dudes ... he's rebounding ... and most impressively... his defense has been very good

That's who he is. I have been saying it all season -- his shot is fixed. I think in NY we just had so many mouths to feed, he would often have to wait until his run with the 2nd unit to get into a rhythm. Now it seems he just has a more open chance.

Cheering for him and IQ, though kinda want to see IQ traded to Philly so IQ and Maxey can run around together.

now why in the hell as a knicks fan would you ever want to have to see this

When they are on, they would be fun, like Splash 2.0. When IQ isn't on... it would look like this years Hawks.

rajajackal · Post #1832 » by **rajajackal** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 4:59 am

nykballa2k4 wrote:
rajajackal wrote:
nykballa2k4 wrote:
That's who he is. I have been saying it all season -- his shot is fixed. I think in NY we just had so many mouths to feed, he would often have to wait until his run with the 2nd unit to get into a rhythm. Now it seems he just has a more open chance.

Cheering for him and IQ, though kinda want to see IQ traded to Philly so IQ and Maxey can run around together.

now why in the hell as a knicks fan would you ever want to have to see this

When they are on, they would be fun, like Splash 2.0. When IQ isn't on... it would look like this years Hawks.

i'm saying i wouldn't want to have to deal with that backcourt on a local rival :lol:

Ursusamericanus · Post #1833 » by **Ursusamericanus** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 5:03 am

Much-needed win for the Lakers, but man they made some low-IQ plays.

Post #1834 » by **Capn'O** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 5:08 am

Seems like a lot of off topic action tonight

Post #1835 » by **Capn'O** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 5:23 am

Just made this post on the GB

A lot of us on our board were saying that Knicks and Raptors would be great trade partners because we had opposite redundancies and deficiencies and some of both team's core players kinda got in each other's way. We had a lot of guards and small wings and they had a lot of forwards and big wings. RJ paired poorly with Randle and OG, Siakam, and Barnes didn't quite fit. Looking back on it, the two teams were talking RJ + picks for OG for awhile and the Knicks probably signed Donte last summer with the intention of including IQ in this deal instead. It was a head scratcher signing at the time but looking back our best option to upgrade at forward/wing in free agency was maybe Trey Lyles so maybe they figured why not just do the deal and balance things that way.

We thought the lawsuit put the kibosh on everything but I guess not.

Toronto should be a lot better now. I've been scratching my head at that roster construction for awhile now. It was pretty obvious that they had redundant talent and once they sorted it out they had a substantially better team than we've seen recently. I was a little surprised OG was the odd one out but so it was. Likewise, the Knicks seem better than I've seen in 25 years.

stuporman · Post #1836 » by **stuporman** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 5:27 am

Randle holding RJ back the whole time...

GettinitDone · Post #1837 » by **GettinitDone** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 9:57 am

We traded de wrong left hander?

GEOLINK · Post #1838 » by **GEOLINK** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 10:51 am

stuporman wrote:Randle holding RJ back the whole time...

I always felt like it was one or the other. I think we all knew from jump that both couldn't play on the same team.

Reign23 · Post #1839 » by **Reign23** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 11:28 am

what a performance.

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Adelheid · Post #1840 » by **Adelheid** » Mon Jan 8, 2024 12:01 pm

they are similar players bar none